i have problems with keyboard keys recognition
first, arrows do not work at all
and when i add ru keyboard layout it stays only until the next X restart and i have to run keyboard wizard again
also the boot time is a bit slow due to kernel event manager
whatis it for? and is it possible to skip it or load it after x loaded?_________________skype: desafimager

More SFS's (you can found the package list and configure options in <sfs file> /usr/doc/<sfs filename>.txt)

SOLVED: [read more] reported by MU and confirmed by me:xorgwizard resulted in a black screen when I chose "xorg" So, don't load these SFS files with Bootmanager, please only copy the files you need from them (double click on a .sfs file browse and copy drivers to the filesystem) I'll convert these sfs to .pet soon to avoid this problem.

Installing a new intel driver on Puppy-4.xx could fix it. Sometimes those xorg video modules requires to update even more libs.

@magerlab: About the boot time... I added 3 service scripts (for: hal 0.5.11, dbus-1.2.3 and udev-1.30) to the rc.sysinit file, I compiled Xorg with HAL enabled for xinput hotplug (try to add/remove/swap keyboard, mouse, or any other input device while X is running and it will be autodetected and autoconfigured) PCmanfm uses hal and udev(kernel event manager) to mount and unmount devices.
You said that arrow keys doesn't work at all? it happens any time or only with certain apps? Please tell me more.

@eightbitz : I'm downloading ndiswrapper-1.53 right now and will try to make a pet later.

Craig,
the desktop is run in /usr/bin/startlxde.
You could edit it, e.g. replace lxsession with fbpanel.

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I had more time to check the iso out.
Installed the new xorg/mesa sfs.

Edited xorg.conf from "vesa" to "ati".
Now my desktop started with 1680x1050 pixel, and 3D is accellerated.
Unfortuntely Xorg 7.4 did not solve the crashes of my Radeon 9250 with DRI enabled, I think it is a hardware-defect/conflict.
Oh, and with this resolution, shadows are very slow again, so I had to "killall xcompmgr" to stop them.

Then I replaced again the Radeon with my Nvidia geforce2.
Edited xorg.conf to "nv".
Now I have stable and fast X, but no 3D, the nv driver supports no 3D accelleration.

Note: in both cases, xorgwizard resulted in a black screen when I chose "xorg".
I have not checked yet, if this is due to the mesa/xorg sfs, or to the devx sfs I also activated (that from Puppy 411).
So I edited xorg.conf by hand with mp.

Extract it in /root/
Backup your own nvidia-module, /lib/modules/2.6.27.5/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko.

Then type:
cd /root/nvidia-kernelmodule-71.86.06/nv
./MU-compile

Then please zip and attach the resulting
/lib/modules/2.6.27.5/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

Then restore your backupped module.

If that works, we could easily compile new nvidia kernelmodules for the existing pets.
Thanks, Mark_________________my recommended linksLast edited by MU on Tue 16 Dec 2008, 08:52; edited 1 time in total

Just a note for you that this pup seems to only recognize 2 cores on a quad core. That is all that show in conky anyway. Great pup though!! I have not figured out how to configure lxde yet. Can't change the global font, wallpaper or position of the menu panel to the bottom.

NDISwrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Microsoft Windows drivers for wireless network devices (cards, USB modems, and routers), on Unix-like operating systems, for devices sharing the same architecture only, namely either the Intel x86 architecture or x86_64. NDISwrapper works by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs, and dynamically linking the driver to this implementation.

ndiswrapper for this kernel, WARNING: many windows driver will not work...

@magerlab: "arrow key not work at all"
Ok, it happens when you change keyboard model with 'xkbconfigmanager' in Xorg-7.4
To fix it comment out 'Option "XkbModel" "pc102"' in /etc/X11/ don't worry about removing this, Xorg-7.4 will autoconfigure your keyboard.

I edited ~/.xinitrc to read the keyboard layout from /etc/keymap, 'cause X always try to use the 'us' layout. Please use 'input-wizard'>'Choose keyboard layout for your country' to fix this.
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